As part of Neurocare November, we want to highlight just some of the incredible NHS staff who care for patients with a range of neurological conditions in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ neuroscience departments. First up is Emma Foster, a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Progressive Ataxias at the Sheffield Ataxia Centre, who has worked in her [...]
Professor Marios Hadjivassiliou, a Consultant Neurologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, is taking part in this year’s Walk for Wards to support neurology patients at a time of real need. Marios will be raising funds with his family by taking on a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ walk – which will see the trio walking in both [...]
To our supporters, As a charity, like you and the rest of our community, we trying to adapt to the current government advice regarding the outbreak of Covid-19. These are unprecedented times for all of us and so we are working hard to ensure that everything we do protects our staff, our supporters and the [...]
Dan Healy is taking on the Sheffield Half Marathon to raise funds for Neurocare - the brain injury charity that supports the Neurology Department which saved his life ten years ago. Dan was just 19 when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident and suffered bleeding on his brain requiring neurological surgery, twice. [...]
Derbyshire GP Tom Adler is going to extremes to raise money for brain injury charity Neurocare. The super fit doctor will be one of just 40 competitors taking on the gruelling, 230km Arctic Circle Ice Ultra Challenge in aid of the Sheffield-based charity which supports the work of the city’s neurology and neurosciences departments. Experienced [...]
Chris Bexon, aged 52 from Hoylandswaine, was diagnosed with a three inch meningioma tumour in his brain in 2016 followed by thyroid cancer in his neck just months later. The tumour located in Chris’s skull had been growing for up to ten years and had re-shaped his brain, a seven and half hour craniotomy was [...]
A group of young women raised a total of £2150 for Neurocare after discovering their mum had had a brain tumour for over six months and could have just weeks to live. Bridgette Chandley, aged 58, from Rotherham, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in August 2018 after being convinced it was simply spondylosis or [...]
Businesses across Sheffield came together last month at Hallamshire Golf Club and battled it out on the 18-hole course. The annual event which has been supported by IFM Insurance over the past 4 years has raised a grand total of £103,915 and £27,350.69 from last month’s Golf Day alone. The Golf Day attracted over 45 [...]
Rachel Watson, age 28 from Bolton, had an unexpected brain haemorrhage back in 2015 which caused memory damage and confusion. Initially Rachel was taken to the A&E department at the Northern General Hospital but then she was transferred to the Hallamshire where they discovered an AVM on her brain. An AVM is a tangle of [...]
Tracey McMaster, age 44, from Sheffield will be participating in the Head Start charity run with her family to thank the staff for saving her life 16 years ago and providing high quality care ever since. Back in 2002, Tracey was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus which is a condition where there is an abnormal build-up of [...]
